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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07
An Impromptu Reception.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Mr. Fairchild en-
tered upon the discharge Of his new duties
yesterday. He was sworn in at eleven
o'clock and took possession OF the once
and desk formerly occupied by ex-Secre-
tary Manning. The officers and clerks Oh
the department waited upon him early and
extended their congratulations, and the
crowd became so great that he was COM
PEELED to abandon for the time all idea or
attending to the current work claiming MS
attention. He received a profuslon OF
flowers and congratulatory letters and teie-
grams from all parts of the country. A
majority of the kilograms were from bank
ers and business men
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

Mr.. FAIRCHILD entered upon the dis
charge of his duties as Secretary of the
Treasury on the lst. The officers and
many clerks of the department waited
upon him early and extended their con-
gratulations. The crowd became so
great that he was compelled to abandon
for time all idea of attending to cur
rent work claiming his attention. He
received profusion of flowers and
congratulatory letters and kilograms
from all parts of the country. A ma
!ority of the kilograms were from
bankers and business men.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07
The First Work of the Commission.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-The first busi-
ness that will come before the Interstate
Commerce Commission, after its complete
organization by the election Of secretary,
will be to fix the time and place for the
hearing of matters submitted by Mr.. A.
Smith, vice-president Of the Louisville
e. Nashville Railroad, and Virgil
Powers, general commissioner for
pool rates for the Southern Railway and
Steamship Association in reference to
long and short haul feature Of the Inter
State Commerce act as 1t applies to the
railroads east Of the Mississippi river,
south Of the Ohio and west Of the Potomac
river.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

THERE are few isolated cases OF cholera
at Valparaiso and at Santiago de Chill, put
none along the coast to the north.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
April showed an increase of lis compared
with the corresponding week of last year.
In New York the increase was 7.3.
AMERICAN securities were in demand in
London during the week ended April 2.
French and German bourses were de-
pressed.
The Montgomery (Ala.) companies, the
Grays and the Blues, have officially resolved
to withdraw from the Washington drill be-
cause Of the entry of three colored conpa-
MES into the competition.
IT is asserted that the alias in California
Of William Kissane, the New York forger,
is Colonel William X. Rogers, a wealthy
citizen of Sonoma Comfy.
ADyICEs from Bermuda state that the
steamer Saragossa, Captain Miller, from
Baltimore, March Is, for Port Antonia,
foundered at sea $50 miles north Of Wat
kins' island. The crew were all saved.
THE great Hotel del Monte at Monterey,
Cal, burned on the morning of Che I'd. The
guests had a very narrow escape, excite
ment for a time being intense. The total
loss amounted to $1,0OO,OO0.
IT is reported that the President will
make favorable response to the invitation
of the citizens OF st. Louis to visit that
city this fall.
NEW YORK was greatlyrexcited on the Sd
by a report that the Cunard steamship
Scythia with 500 souls on board was
wrecked at Scituate. The report was un-
founded, the vessel herself arriving at
port in the afternoon.
THE fine Roman amphitheater at Pola in
Austria, on the Adriatic, suddenly collapsed
on the I'd and fell into an immense chasn
which opened on the site. From this chasn
vapors are emitted.
DURING the sitting of the Spanish Cham
ber of Deputies on the I'd parchment case
lcontainiug gunpowder was found in the
in the evening petard was exploded in the
lvestibule adjoining the offices of Minister
of Finance. Nobody was hurt.
DAMAGES amounting to S400, 900 are re-
ported by fires in the cedar brakes on the
Brazos river, Tex.
CLARKsvILLE, T5nn-, suffCred a loss OF
S25O,OOO by fire on the 3D. First street and
part of Franklin streets were swept clean.
Itwenty-four buildings being burned. The
lorigin of the fire was unknown.
POLICEMAN MICHAEL 0'BRIES, OF Chicago,
was shot and fatally WOUNDED the other
might by tough named Timothy Grady,
Whom he was trying TO arrest Grady is
under arrest.
THE root of a church at LiRguaiossa, Sic
lily, fell without warning during the ser.
vices on the I'd, burying beneath it several
hundred persons, forty Of whom were killed
and injured.
THE National Bureau of Labor has twenty
mine special agents in the field investigating
Istrikes from 1881 to 1886 and inQuiring into
1.-THE condition of workingmen in the cities.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

THE Light House Board has COM
pleted arrangements for increasing and
improving the illumination of the Bar
tholdi statue of Liberty on Bedloe's isl
and. A strong lens will be placed in
the torch, five additional electric lights
will be placed around the base, making
thirteen of such lights in all, and 4
number Of incandescent lights will be
placed in the interior of the statue.
The light TO be placed in the torch will
be one of the most powerful fixed
lights in the world.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

THE manufacture of tobacco in North
Carolina has doubled in volume and
value in the last ten years, and real
estate values in about the same proper
ton. North Carolina contains about
three hundred square miles of coal,
and thirty counties in the State have
good workable iron ores. One of the
greatest sources of wealth, if properly
utilized, in North Carolina. is its tim
Der lands, fully half the State now be-
ing a virgin forest.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

THE Secretary of the Treasury has
received letter from the Alaska Com
mercial Company complaining that
private parties are taking seals in the
water about Alaska, and asking that
more revenue cutters be sent for their
protection. The letter states that be-
tween forty thousand and fifty thousand
skins have been taken during the year
by outside parties, and the United
States is asked to prohibit all killing OF
seals within the eastern half of Beh-
rings strait.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

THE Governor and Council of Maine
recently commenced hearing charges
against the State Fish Commissioners.
The charges were that the commits
sioners showed partiality in executing
the law; that they paid their private
bills out of and otherwise misappro-
priated funds; that they robbed the
lakes of spawn and sold it and that
they violated the laws by killing fish
and game in the closed season.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

One of the accounts of the late at
tempt on the Cars life is as follows:
''While the Gar was walking on the
terrace overlooking the lawn at Cat
selma Palace shot was fired from be-
hind a bush. The bullet whistled
close to the Cars ear. A second shot
was fired from behind another bush,
but without effect. A sentinel near
Immediately fired upon the first assail-
ant and, it is reported, killed him on
the spot. The second assailant tried
to escape, but was arrested. He proved
to be an officer of the army"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07
Died on an Ice Floe.

ST. JOHNS, n. F., April "A party OF
sealers went from the shore of the channel
on the west coast Of Newfoundland on a
sealing expedition. The ice moved sea
ward, carrying the men along with it.
Two Of their bodies have been recOv-
cred from the ice foe. The men had been
frozen to death. The steamer Aurora has
been dispatched to the scene Of the Eagle
disaster. Hopes are entertained that some
Of the Eagles crew are yet alive.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

Villas and Whitney are reported the
takers at Cabinet meetings. Lamar is
generally very quiet, but wakes up Oc-
casionally and scores a good point.
Bayard talks good deal at long inter-
walls. Fairchild, who occupies Man.
ning's seat at the table, Is essentially
judicial in his manner.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

The other morning John Cavanaugh,
a Scranton (Pa.) miner, was buried
under mass of rock at Mount Pleas
ant colliery. Just as a party Of res
cuers reached near enough to hear him
call out that his leg was broken they
were warned by a cracking above them
and fled, and another mass of rock fell
upon the poor fellow and he was killed
snr,t,.icrhf
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

The British Admiralty Court has
found that the captain of the bark Ada
Melmore was partially responsible for
the sinking of the emigrant ship Ka-
punda and loss of several hundred
lives.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

The inhabitants of Old Town, Me-.
are mostly Indians. The chief Offices
in the city are occupied by red men,
who take as much interest in such af-
fairs as their white brethren in neigh
boring cities.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

The bill legalizing pool selling at
Monmouth Park has become law
through the failure of the Governor of
New Jersey to sign or veto it within
the prescribed time.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07
CURRENT COMMENT.

In Rhode Island hereafter the peo-
pie will vote every ten years to see
whether they want the constitution
amended.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07
"A Little Mistake-Lena who bs

"A Little Mistake-Lena, who he's
been only few months from Germany,
is very proud of the facility with which
she is acquiring the English language.
Once in while, however, when trying
to repeat some of the slang phrases
used by the boys of the family. she
makes a slight mistake. As, for in
stance, when. after listening with an
incredulous smile to very transparent
attempt at hoax by young John, she
exclaimed. 'Oh, Master Vonny, dat
story is not dick enough. ."-Harper's s.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07
BODIES FOUND.

BUFFALO, N. Y, April 4-Saturday work
men on the ruins of the Richmond Hotel
fire found portions of charred human body
entirely beyond recognition. The remains
were taken out in pieces and put in box
1t is thought to be the body of Mark Os-
borne, the day clerk.
In the afternoon the trunk of another
body was found in the Richmond Hotel ru-
ins. The head and legs were missing. It
was the body of a man, and it was without
doubt that Of r. s. Boyd, OF Boston, the
Bell Telephones COmpany's special agent
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07
"A man was found dead bY the roal

"A man was found dead by the road
side in Alameda County. He had one
eye only, and his nose was broken, fur
nishing, one would think, ample means
for identifying him. Yet he was
claimed by three different lots of peO-
pie and positively identified as three
different men. He turned out to be
none of them, but a different citizen
entirely.-San Francisco Altd.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07

Stillman Goodno, of Washington; James
Jameson, of Dodge City; Peter Goodnight,
of Wellington; Horace c. Derr, of Arkansas
City; Young ]. Powell, of Robinson; Frank
NJ. Tracy, of Troy; John G. White, of Pitts
burg; Abraham S. Nowberger, of Museum
William W. Jones, of Baxter Springs; Cyrus
S. Knowles, of Dial: Isaac \. kinzie, of Sa-
lem; Joseph A. Gurley, of Leroy, and MIN
rod 81. Endsley, of Badger Creek.
SALINA has 1,l52 school children.
THE other day a sixteen-year-old boy by
the name of Shewalter, an inmate of the re-
form school at Topeka, who ran away from
that institution last fall, was taken back
by the superintendent. The boy had been
lodging about from place 10 place since his
escape, and was finally captured at Bloom
ington, Ill On the return the boy jumped
from the train about forty miles east of
Kansas City, while it was running at the
rate OF twenty-five miles an hour. The
train was stopped and returned to where
the lad jumped OF. He got up and at
tempted to run but was overtaken and put
on the train again, somewhat the worse foi
his jump, but not seriously hurt
The special mail service from Chilocco,
Cowley County, to Arkansas City has
been discontinued.
LEAvESwoRTH registered 2,673 women as
voters, 6l7 OF whom were colored. The to-
tai registration for the city election was
6991.
THE post-ofice site at Pleasantdale, Rush
County, has been changed twomiles south.
AT special election held in Lyon County
recently the propositions to aid the Mis-
souri,, Kansas a. Southwestern railroad
and the Emporla, Winfield & Fort Scott
railroad, were carried by about 1,5OO major
ity. Emporia gave over LOO majority for
the propositions. 1t is stated that this in
sures the construction of four railroads to
EmPorIa within the next eighteen months.
A SEw post-ofice named Alpine has been
established in the Public Lano strip " ith
Alexander c. Bender as postmaster.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-18
General 11enS.
MATTERS AT WASHINGTON.

Captain Greeley has been nominated
for chief signal officer.
\ decision by Speaker Carlisle leaves
little hope for passing the Blair educa-
tional bill.
The Senate commerce committee has
agreed upon Il river and harbor bill APP
propriating Sl0.0O0,O00.
1t is expected that the entire three per
cent. Indebtedness of the government
will be wiped out before July |.
Senator Edmunds made vigorous
speech in the Senate Tuesday in opposi-
ton to the Eads ship railway bill.
Secretary Manning's resignation is in
the hands of the President. but he will
continue in Office until his successor is
appointed and qualities.
The important appropriation bills be-
fore Congress are further behindhand
than ever before at this stage of the ses-
sion. An immense amount of work re-
mains to be done in the last few days OF
the session.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-18
MORE ON THE CREAMERY QUESTION

EdHor Register II notice in the REG
IsTER of the 2Sth ult. one of the most
notable cases of especial pleading" have
ever seen by any butter factory proprie-
tor. think have used the words cor
rectly as lawyers apply them especial
pleading" means, As | understand it. a
case in which they have no testimony
and as consequence must work upon
the sympathics of the jury without teSti-
mony. Mr.. Douglas says had they done
so and so the results would have been
thus and so. This might be said of any
creamery; if they had done better they
would. There is no chance for argument
over this: it is Il self-evident truth. This
makes me- think of the story | used to
hear when ! went to school about the
dog and the hare; if the log hadn't
stopped he would have ovrtaken the
hare. | suppose what dairynen want is
what the butter factories did pay-not
what they might have paid.
Mr. Douglas cites two daires. one of
which required - lbs. of mi k and the
other 20 $40 lbs. to make pound of
butter. do not see how il would he
possible for him to use stronger argu-
ment in favor of cream-gathe'ing.' How
does he find this difference? By putting
samples of milk in tubes One month
and setting these testing tubes in cold
water, and the glass shows thepercentage
of yield. In the Cooley crean-gathering
system the test is made, not one day, but
every day in the month in tie creamers,
and every patron gets exactly what he
makes. Is not test made every day
more accurate than one month Then
Mr.. Douglas must admit thatthe Cooley
gathering is the mos equitable.
Will Mr.. Douglas please giyeyour read
ers full and correct statemnt OF what
his factory paid for the seasol?
call your readers attention to the
fact that the cooperative fatories, as a
rule, publish their full repGts, while
have never seen a full, complete and
comprehensive report of a centrifugal
factory. If they are so much ahead
why don't they give their full records
Why don't Mr.. Douglas giv his? Hi'
patrons, | am informed, got only
IL IL cents for their butter-and besid,
this paid 2 cents per COW a day to have
their milk carried. Two Gems a day on
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-18

has secured $1,000 in subscriptions toward
the erection of an edifice for the society
which he has organized, and he calls on
the people of the town for $1,000 more.
This obtained, he will be ready to com
mence building on the lot on West street
which the society has purchased and
partly paid for.
The election of Mr.. II. w. Hall as
Deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows at the annual meeting of
the Grand Lodge at Bradford, last week,
is deserved compliment to man who
has worked earnestly and faithfully for
the prosperity and good of the order in
this city. Henry Hall is one of the
wheel horses of the brotherhood. and in
thus honoring him the Grand Lodge has
honored ITSELF Burlington Clipper.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-18
EAST MIDDlEBURY.

Mrs. Liberty Pratt died on the 18th
inst. She was 81 years of age.
{ F. c. Partridge spent Sunday at home.
He has an injured hand to care for. 81 (
2 f. j. Olmsted has gone to the Fletcher
hospital at Burlington to be treated. :, |.
Necdham post will hold "a campfire at
their post room on Friday evening. Feb
ruary %. Rev. NJ. c. Stebbins will be
present and deliver his lecture, "Ihe
Difference" and will contrast the two
sides of our civil war stem cents admis-
sion will be charged.
J II. G. Sessions has recently sold his
ninc-months-old colt to Dana Morse OF
West Randolph for $500; dam was Mag
gle; sire, Aristos. Does notE horse-rear-
ing pay in Vermont? Mr.. Sessions says
yes; and ihe must know. as he has just
returned from Massachusetts, where he
took seven horses, earring them on Mon
day of last week and returning on
Thursday morning. This is business for
a man of his age.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-18
WEST CORNWALL.

Minnie Warner of Crown Point is Wis
iting Florence Tracy.
F. 5. Haskell went to Burlington,
Tuesday, to attend the carnival.
ii. +. Taylor attended the Horse-Breed-
ers' meeting at Rutland, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. F. Haskell went to
Bristol on Thursday, returning Sunday
afternoon.
G.. Il. DimmOck returned from Rut-
land Thursday. He is interested, with
others, in patent mop.
j. w. Peck and wife went last week to
Ticonderoga. They will visit friends
there and in Crown Point.
The History of Addison county has
been delivered to subscribers. We I'M
derstand they do not give general salts
faction.
Mr.. and Mrs. White, who haye been
living on the Edwin Jones farm, have
moved into the house owned by Mrs
Jane Hill of Shoreham and lately vacat
ed by DR.. G.. w. Bond.
The same changes of weather that have
been rung all winter, very cold will
snow, then rain, etc., continue, ano
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-18
bors tried to enter he reloaded one of the
guns and blew out his brains.

bors tried to enter he reloaded one of the
guns and blew out his brains.
Thousands of cattle are reported to
have persisted by the seventies of the
winter in Montana. A Fort keough dis
patch says: In round numbers there were,
January l, 100000 head of cattle and
25,O00 sheep on the ranges north and
south of the Yellowstone river, within a
radius of 100 miles of this point. Up to
that date stock had not suffered much
from the severity of the winter but dur
ing January and the half of February
just closing, storms have been of unpre-
cedented frequency, and the temperature
has averaged the lowest for - years. 1t
is not possible to accurately estimate the
losses, but they have been enormous, in
some places amounting to the practical
humiliation of whole herds. Cattle in
the Indian territory, however, have win
tered well.
\ dramatic episode concluded Adelina
PATHS last concert of the season at the
Grand opera house at San Francisco one
night last week. She had just retired to
the wings of the stage in responding to a
second recall at 1920 o'clock. when a
tremendous explosion was clearly heard
above the vociferous applause. and a
cloud of smoke was seen to rise over the
railing of the top gallery. \ policeman
rushed to the scene of the explosion and
found man with badly burned face
and hands, moaning with agony, and the
remains of an Internal machine about him.
The theory is that the fuse burned too
quickly for the crank and the explosion
was premature.
The night express train on the Clcve-
land and Pittsburg railroad was feeling
its way slowly along over the flooded
country just outside the city limits of
Cleveland, o., Thursday night. when a
bridge gave way and wrecked the train
The structure was of iron, 60 feet long
to great height by the recent rains
The engineer felt the bridge tremble a,
he passed over it and it did not give way
until the baggage and express car had
passed. The smoking car plunged
through it, hung above the stream sus
pended between the two abutments. ant
brought the train to sudden stop. III,
sudden jerk caused the engine and TIVE
| forward cars to tumble over into tn,
ditch and the engineer was tossed int
the creek but escaped unharmcd.. Tn,
! fireman, Hines, was badly hurt. Th'
baggage-master was hurled against tn,
side of his car and seriously injured
Only two persons We're in the smokin!
car and they escaped unniured. The for
ward end of the passenger coach bacl
of the smoker went over the abutmen
and crashed into the smoker. Had tn,
train been moving with any speed at all
Il terrible disaster would have resulted.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-18

distance, all intent on giving Ed, as he Is
Familiarity called, a good social start in
his matrimonial career, and his young
wife hearty welcome to our social cir
Giles. The presents were numerous and
valuable, comprising a large variety of
both ornamental and utilitarian,al pleas
ant reminders of the occasion and the
friends who presented them. The enter
tainment was not unlike that usually pro-
vided on such occasions at the best class
of New England homes, which implies a
great deal. No people on earth can boast
of more luxurious abundance of house
hold supplies than is found at a typical
Vermont homestead. A marked charac-
teristic of the occasion was its emnently
social features, and the kindly, genial
feeling which prevailed. At late hour
the guests retired, with many expressions
of good will and wishes for the bride and
groom.
A large audience greeted Col. Neazey
on Thursday evening. 1t was confident
y expected, by those having the matter
i'll charge, that lecture by him. in con-
nection with the excellent and entertain
ing music which the presence of the Mid
dlebury College quartet club ensured,
would attract Il full house, and in this
they were not disappointed. Our citizens
were out in large numbers. while all the
adjoining towns were well represented.
The subject of the lecture, was, as pre-
viously announced. General Mead and
the Battle of Gettysburg" All who
heard it must have been impressed with
"A higher appreciation of the man and the
general whose military genius secured
for Us so decisive a victory. His graphic
description of that terrible contest. com
ing as it did from one who was in the
thickest of the fight, and who saw and
felt what he described, was intensely in
teresting. The important positions held
by our Vermont troops were clearly
shown, and their unfinching persistency
in holding them, modcstly, yet wildly
described, and frequently applauded.
The music by the college club was equal.
" well received. Their selections were
good, and well executed. They were
often encorcd, and as often drought
down the house" The occasion will not
seen be forgotten by our citizens, and all
hope to hear again in the near future,
from both Col. Neazey and the College
quartet club.